Pyside GUI Application Development

Pyside GUI Application Development is published by Packt Publishing in January 2016. This book has 144 pages in English, ISBN-13 978-1785282454.

Elegantly-built GUI applications are always a massive hit among users. PySide is an open source software project that provides Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform UI framework. Combining the power of Qt and Python, PySide provides easy access to the Qt framework for Python developers and also acts as an excellent rapid application development platform.

This book will take you through everything you need to know to develop UI applications. You will learn about installing and building PySide in various major operating systems as well as the basics of GUI programming. The book will then move on to discuss event management, signals and slots, and the widgets and dialogs available with PySide. Database interaction and manipulation is also covered.

By the end of this book, you will be able to program GUI applications efficiently and master how to develop your own applications and how to run them across platforms.

What You Will Learn

Program GUI applications in an easy and efficient way

Download and install PySide, a cross-platform GUI development toolkit for Python

Create menus, toolbars, status bars, and child windows

Develop a text editor application on your own

Connect your GUI to a database and manage it

Execute SQL queries by handling databases

Who This Book Is For

This book is written for Python programmers who want to learn about GUI programming. It is also suitable for those who are new to Python but are familiar with object-oriented programming.